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366 results for "Religion and culture"
366 results for "Religion and culture"

"What Went Wrong So Bad?"

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The Nigerian lawyer and activist Hauwa Ibrahim, formerly a lecturer at HDS and a research associate of the School’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP), spoke in New York recently on Mother’s Without Borders: Steering Youth Away from Violent...

The Transcendent Practice of Prayer

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The following faculty address was delivered by Susan Abraham, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies, in the Memorial Church during the June 3 Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the Class of 2009. Dean Graham, Reverend Gomes, Class of 2009...

Video: Religious Literacy and Media and Entertainment

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Film, television, and other forms of entertainment media frequently include religious themes and characters, whether implicitly or explicitly. These on-screen representations shape how many Americans understand religion off-screen and how we interact with...

Video: Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault

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Mark D. Jordan discusses his recent publication, Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault. Respondents include James Bernauer, S.J., of Boston College, Amy Hollywood and Mayra Rivera Rivera, both of Harvard Divinity School. Read " Theology...

Celebrating a Green Campus

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"We at Harvard must be a model. . . . It is true that the climate change and the challenge of sustainability are global problems. But climate change is also a local problem. Solving it begins with each of us. Every person at Harvard—student, faculty...

Walking the Pandemic

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Religious leaders from the HDS community share spiritual resources for hard times The COVID-19 pandemic both engenders and accentuates the greatest challenges of the human condition: loneliness, loss, suffering, and mortality. Confronted with these, the...

Charlie Stang on Keeping the Faith

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Professor Charlie Stang, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, talks about how he formed his Christian identity, discovering his love of Ashkenazi food, and the challenge of finding good babka in Israel.